Originally Posted by
Matrix
May I be so bold as to suggest that Biu Jee has more to do with a level of power and intensity that you bring to the game as opposed to specific 'techniques' or a series of predefined movements that we call a form. So when Lee Chiang Po says "The point I was trying to make I guess is that when I am threatened I will immediately use Bil Jee." I think of that as meaning to bringing relaxed power to the centerline with speed and precision, regardless of the hand in question.
Bill
This is really interesting. I had a conversation with my teacher about this a time ago.
Do you (Bill and others) see the BJ being taught as the only form that has "Ging" or relaxed power? In the way I was originally taught, that precision/relaxed power/etc was introducted in the last form because it takes such a long time to cultivate other things.
After much research into "older" family systems, my Sifu found that in their "versions," they had that Ging, etc, in the forms from the get-go. So after that, it was a free-for-all! LOL
Thoughts?
Kenton
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. Friedrich Engels